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The first eight trucks of a UN humanitarian convoy have arrived in northern Syria, having crossed from Turkey. The trucks – carrying food, blankets, mattresses, family kits, hygiene kits, medicines and medical supplies – are being unloaded at UN warehouses in Qamishli, in Syria’s far...

This week marks three years since the crisis in Syria began. The UN estimates that 9 million people in Syria need aid, including 3.5 million people living in areas where aid groups cannot reach them.
At the most severe end of the scale are the 250,000 people living in besieged areas, without access to...

The UN’s top humanitarian official in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has warned that the number of people displaced by violence in Katanga Province is rising at an alarming rate.
“There are now eight times more internally displaced persons [in Katanga] than three years ago,...

The recent conflict in Amran Governorate, northern Yemen, has displaced thousands of families, disrupted livelihoods and destroyed houses and farmland.
“My family was first displaced to Khyar, Bani Suraim District, in late December [2013],” said 25-year old Naji Hudairi. “On 3 February...

Typhoon Haiyan destroyed or damaged an estimated 1 million homes across the Eastern and Western Visayas Regions of the central Philippines. Three months on from the devastating storm, the most pressing needs in the affected areas are for durable shelter and the restoration of livelihoods.
“Building...